Monthly Archives: March 2019

American missile drones? Phi, old news. Make way for the Russian technology! A month ago, Russian military concern Almaz-Antey has patented its own model of flying drone. Today, videos depicting this device in action have been released online. Russian’s yet unnamed drone weights 25 kilos, has 3 meters long wings and and a battery allowing for 40 minutes of flight. Its most interesting part is its armament, though; Vepr-12 automatic shotgun based on the classic Kalashnikov assault rifle.We do not know whether or not this drone will ever see active duty. What we know, though, is that we ...

Apple web shows, smart Nike shoes, McDonald buying out tech corporations: yep, 21st century is definitely an interesting time to live in. The takeover of the company worth 300 million bucks has allowed McDonald further know-how and manpower to work on their smart menu boards. Currently McD wants their menu boards to be highly interactive; the looks and the menu shown are supposed to change along with the weather, e.g. offering warm or cold drinks when needed, breakfast packages will take the forefront of the menu in the mornings and dinner ones in the afternoon et cetera.The takeover has ...

A few hours ago a new render of Motorola’s One Vision smartphone has been released online. It shows us a device with thin but considerable bezels, a notch and a dual main camera with dual LED flashes. It also shows us that the device lacks both USB and headphone jacks. Oh well.We will learn more about Motorola One Vision after it comes out on April 3rd.
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Who knows, maybe he will become a hacker and will one day hack into Satan’s database? For now, though, Pope Francis has just begun his journey of learning how to program. He is the first pope to do so, too, but that is not a huge surprise; Francis is perhaps the most modern of all the popes in the history. Still, it is impressing, especially considering that the man is 82 years old now. Francis’ line of code has been added to the app promoting ONZ’s long-term Sustainable Development Goals program. For those of you who do not believe it – and who knows Italian – ...

Is this the charger that will defeat Oppo SuperVOOC? Lin Bin, CEO of Xiaomi, has just published a short video that shows off the capabilities of his company’s newest charger. Super Turbo Charge, for that is its name, supposedly can fill a 4000mAh battery in 17 minutes. Impressive. We shall learn more about it during tomorrow’s Xiaomi conference: until then, all I can do is show you the aforementioned video. Bon appetite – https://youtu.be/g1tuqXEr_No.
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On Apple’s most recent conference, the company has officially announced its new video streaming platform called Apple TV+. What we know about it so far is that it starts with a budget of two billion USD, that it will start in autumn of 2019 and that, like Netflix, it will offer on-call, offline and online and advertise-less stream of content. Apple TV+ will reach a hundred countries at start; if you are reading this, your country is probably among them.
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The regular version of Redmi Note 7 has been long confirmed to come out globally. Sadly, its big brother, the Redmi Note 7 Pro, will not do that. According to Xiaomi’s Thailand branch’s spokesperson, this particular device will only be available for sale in the land of dragons, walls and weird version of socialism – oh, and India too. The man’s exact words were:”As much as I would like to, I regret to inform everyone that Redmi Note 7 Pro will NOT have the official international version releasing to countries other than China and India due to our product ...

This smartphone can be called an ”elegant budget phone”, as it combines price and specs of a low-end device with a pretty high-end looks. Pretty colour variants and gradient rear makes up for Mi Play’s mediocre specs. These include 5,8′ Full HD+ display, 8-core MediaTek Helio P35 CPU, 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage, 3000mAh battery, 8mpx selfie shooter and 12mpx x 2mpx rear camera.
The phone is currently available in Holland, where it costs 169 euro.
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Which lowers the phone’s price to a nice, almost around $199.99. Interested? Moto G6′ specs include 5.7′, 1080p IPS LCD display, Snapdragon 450 CPU, aforementioned 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM, two 2x12mpx rear camera, 2x5mpx selfie shooter and a 3000mAh battery. The only colour variant available is black. We do not know for how long will the sale continue, so better make up your mind fast.
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